<p><a href="https://youtu.be/Pgm4112joG8?si=3AHglwVIaRlD3qdA"><em>See a video version of the interview with curator Jackie Dunn here</em></a></p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/D3b3WLlsakc?si=JbtnhmC8GsrYyeVk"><em>See a video version of the interview with artist Desmond Lazaro here</em></a></p>
<h4>The largest exhibition of Kandinsky&#8217;s work ever to be seen in Australia has just opened at the Art Gallery of NSW!</h4>
<p>The exhibition, titled simply &#8216;Kandinsky&#8217;, brings together over 50 works of one of the 20th century&#8217;s most innovative and ground breaking painters &#8211; Vasily Kandinsky &#8211; with 47 paintings from the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York.</p>
<p>Curated by the Guggenheim&#8217;s curator of modern art and provenance Megan Fontanella together with the AGNSW&#8217;s senior curator Jackie Dunn, these works touch on the most important periods of Kandinsky&#8217;s artistic career, from the early &#8216;Blue Rider&#8217; period, to his time in Germany when teaching at the Bauhaus school right through to his final years in Paris.</p>
<p>In this podcast episode (which you can also see on YouTube) I talk with Jackie Dunn about this extraordinary exhibition. She tells me about Kandinsky&#8217;s life and work, including what the catalysts were for him to become a painter, his use of colour, line and form and his interests in spirituality and music.</p>
<p>I also talk with Desmond Lazaro who was commissioned to design a family-friendly space where visitors are invited to follow the path of a colourful labyrinth and create drawings using the shapes that inspired Kandinsky. Lazaro is a British-Indian-Australian artist whose primary ingredient is colour. His practice explores map-making, planetary systems and the concept of the journey.</p>
<p>Also, alongside the Kandinsky show is an exhibition of &#8216;spirit drawings&#8217; created by British medium Georgiana Houghton in the 1860s and 70s. The exhibition, <a href="https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/georgiana-houghton/">&#8216;Invisible Friends&#8217;, </a>brings together a collection of rarely seen swirling, evocative watercolours.  They highlight how significant spiritualism was in early modernism.</p>
<p>&#8216;Kandinsky&#8217; is a must-see exhibition.  It runs from November 4th to March 10th, 2024. <a href="https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/kandinsky/"> More details here.</a></p>
<p>To hear the podcast episode press &#8216;play&#8217; beneath the above photo.</p>
<p>To watch the video versions of the interviews click on the links at the top of this page or see below.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
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<li><a href="https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/kandinsky/">&#8216;Kandinsky&#8217; at the Art Gallery of NSW</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.desmondlazaro.com/">Desmond Lazaro</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tickets.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/events/018a0662-739b-5e81-b7a6-4c9a6fc30b12?tg=018a0662-73a1-9c5c-986b-71622c17b462&_gl=1%2avxyt0q%2a_ga%2aMTg4MDk0OTI5My4xNjk0MzU2MTkw%2a_ga_PDTDY0ZDFK%2aMTY5OTE4Mzg3OS4xMS4xLjE2OTkxODU2NDcuMC4wLjA.">Tickets for my conversation with Julia Gutman on 15 November 2023 in the Artists in Conversation series</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/talkingwithpainters/">Talking with Painters on Facebook</a></li>
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<p>https://youtu.be/Pgm4112joG8</p>
<p>https://youtu.be/D3b3WLlsakc</p>
<div id="attachment_8360" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8360" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8360" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78244M-2-300x209.jpg" alt="" width="970" height="676" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78244M-2-300x209.jpg 300w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78244M-2-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78244M-2-768x535.jpg 768w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78244M-2-1536x1071.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8360" class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Composition 8&#8217; July 1923, oil on canvas, 140.3 x 200.7 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p></div>
<div id="attachment_8358" style="width: 984px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8358" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8358" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79243M-1-274x300.jpg" alt="" width="974" height="1066" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79243M-1-274x300.jpg 274w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79243M-1-768x842.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 974px) 100vw, 974px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8358" class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Blue mountain&#8217; 1908-09, oil on canvas, 107.3 x 97.6 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p>
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<div id="attachment_8363" style="width: 986px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8363" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8363" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78252M-289x300.jpg" alt="" width="976" height="1013" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78252M-289x300.jpg 289w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID78252M-768x798.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8363" class="wp-caption-text">Vasily Kandinsky &#8216;In the black square&#8217; June 1923, oil on canvas, 97.5 x 93.3 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p>
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<div id="attachment_8356" style="width: 985px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8356" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8356" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79255M-300x269.jpg" alt="" width="975" height="874" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79255M-300x269.jpg 300w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79255M-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79255M-768x688.jpg 768w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79255M-1536x1375.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8356" class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Landscape with rain&#8217; January 1913, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 78.4 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p></div>
<div id="attachment_8355" style="width: 986px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8355" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8355" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79263M-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="976" height="1279" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79263M-229x300.jpg 229w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79263M-768x1005.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8355" class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Yellow painting&#8217; July 1938, oil and enamel on canvas, 116.4 x 88.9 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p>
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<div id="attachment_8357" style="width: 993px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8357" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-8357" src="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="983" height="649" srcset="https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-300x198.jpg 300w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-768x508.jpg 768w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://talkingwithpainters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SID79264M-2048x1354.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px" /><p id="caption-attachment-8357" class="wp-caption-text">&#8216;Around the circle&#8217; MayAugust 1940, oil and enamel on canvas, 97.2 x 146.4 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation</p></div>
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